{"id":263966,"date":"2025-11-01T01:22:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-01T01:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/263966\/"},"modified":"2025-11-01T01:22:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-01T01:22:07","slug":"thieves-caught-on-video-breaking-into-massachusetts-gun-store-stealing-rifles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/263966\/","title":{"rendered":"Thieves caught on video breaking into Massachusetts gun store, stealing rifles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thieves broke into a Holliston, Massachusetts gun store Thursday night and stole semi-automatic rifles in an incident that was captured on surveillance video, police say.<\/p>\n<p>The break-in happened at the retail store of the Mass Firearms School after 11 p.m. The video shows the thieves smashing the glass of the store&#8217;s front door with a hammer, and two of them run inside. They are seen leaving the same way they came in, with two guns in hand.<\/p>\n<p>The owners of the business on Kuniholm Drive told police that two semi-automatic rifles hanging on the wall in the front lobby were stolen.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The three thieves got away before police from Holliston, Ashland and Framingham arrived. Authorities believe they drove off in a light-colored, four-door car that is a 2012 model or newer. No other identifying information was immediately available.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Police want the public to take a look at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=dFcbd9d-uKA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">full surveillance video<\/a> and contact them with any information at 508-429-1212. The federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives is assisting with the investigation.<\/p>\n<p>The Mass Firearm School opened in 2008 and bills itself as &#8220;Massachusetts&#8217; largest firearms training, retail and range shooting facility,&#8221; where thousands of students get <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/boston\/news\/massachusetts-gun-licensing-law-new-hampshire-supreme-court\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">gun licenses<\/a> every year.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have a large inventory of handguns, rifles and shotguns from all the top brands, all available for you to try before you buy,&#8221; the school&#8217;s website says.<\/p>\n<p>Holliston is a town about 30 miles southwest of Boston.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thieves broke into a Holliston, Massachusetts gun store Thursday night and stole semi-automatic rifles in an incident that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":263967,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,451,142015,3,452,453],"class_list":{"0":"post-263966","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-headlines","11":"tag-holliston-news","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-top-stories","14":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=263966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263966\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/263967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}